Pipe and Tube
June 2, 2026
Written by Ethan Bernard
Borusan Berg Pipe, a US subsidiary of Turkish pipe and tube producer Borusan, has secured new sales orders totaling ~$742 million.
The company said this was a result of commercial negotiations conducted in the US. No customer was named in a Borusan press release on June 1.
The latest tally of active drilling rigs moved down in the US, while activity jumped in Canada this week, according to oil and gas rig count data published by Baker Hughes.
The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted unanimously to keep anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders on welded line pipe from South Korea and Turkey in place for another five years.
Alro Steel has opened a new location in Van Buren, Mich., outside Detroit.
Final import data for September from the US Commerce Department shows a slight decline from August’s 15-month high. And October’s license count suggests another month-on-month (m/m) decline in imports. September imports of 2,416,717 short tons (st) were down just 1% from 2,434,108 st in August, a 15-month high. October license data show a steeper 8% m/m fall to 2,214,730 st (Figure 1, left). August appears to have been the peak for the recovery in imports, which has been ongoing since February of this year, when we saw some of the lowest levels since 2020.
Nova Steel, a steel pipe fabricator based in Montreal, has announced layoffs it claims are related to an alleged surge of low-priced imports. The Canadian company announced the temporary layoff of 36 employees at its Saint-Patrick facility, effective Friday, Nov. 13. Nova said unfairly traded steel pipe imports have affected it for years. The company noted that it has brought trade cases to the Canadian government to address the problem.